He said: "That's a reasonable proportion [of bungalows] and the developers have listened to the wishes of the community. It's a 51 unit development and 16 are for over 55-type bungalows. I am not unhappy with that.

"At the end of the day the developer is in it to make profit and it should be a mixed site."

The site in Kimberley. (Image: Google Maps.)

He added: "Ravenshead was developed largely in the 1970s. It was mostly green fields until the 1960s. Young professionals came and built properties. People needed to build amounts of land which is why it is mixed.

"We have old, single people rattling in big properties who are all cash-poor with not huge amounts in the bank. They do not want to move out of Ravenshead.

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"Why Ravenshead is struggling is because it's a place where people can't downsize to free up houses for families to come in with their children.

"One of them [residents] may have passed away and their kids have long since moved and live elsewhere. So the remaining person is rattling around in a two or three-bed property and does not want to live elsewhere and would rather downsize [in the area]."

Hannah White, the licencee of The Larch Farm pub, in Mansfield Road, Ravenshead, said: "It is an affluent area. People do see it as a desirable post code.

"This will bring more people to the village and more people to the pub."